Bette Davis Quotes

I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Getting old ain't for sissies.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life.

Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager

It's better to be HATED for who you ARE then Loved for who you ARE NOT!

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Old age is no place for sissies!

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

"Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder — so you can move faster — you forget you'll need them when you go back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common whether we like it or not. Being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter what other careers we've had or wanted. And in the last analysis nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner — or turn around in bed — and there he is. Without that you're not a woman. You're someone with a French provincial office — or a book full of clippings. But you're not a woman. Slow curtain. The end. (from "All About Eve")"

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Old Age Ain't For Sissies. Taken from a Bette Davis quote.

I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.